It's all over for another year! We have seen some fantastic progress and results over the course of the club championships and many swimmers have achieved County times and also Midland times which is really promising for the new year ahead. It was great to see swimmers from all squads taking part - from our youngest ones competing in their first licensed meet right through to some of our masters swimmers and even our coaching staff! The weekend finished off with some exciting swimming in the skins events - well done to Will Turnock and Becky Whittaker winners of the junior skins and Martin Cox and Amy Mead who won the Seniors. Special mention has to go to Will Halstead in County squad who set 3 new club records in the breaststroke for the 13 year 50m, 100m and 200m which now puts him in great contention for next months County Champs. Well done also to James Cox who set a new record in the 11 year old 400 freestyle and at the Major Oak competition last month little brother Matthew also set a new record in the 100m breastroke for 9 year boys. This event is a great opportunity for our junior swimmers to take some tips from our seniors so hopefully you all picked up some good technique and will take this back to training. Big thanks to everyone who took on a role either before or during the event because without them these events wouldn't be able to run - especially Kath Needham who is the engine room behind this event. We are also grateful to all our visiting officials and to David Fortescue who managed our results service. The ladies on the kit team , Carole, Sally, Rachel and Julie did a fantastic job raising funds for the club sellingh the Speedo gear that we were kindly donated by Justine Whitby and Speedo and they have worked really hard to ensure all our swimmers will look great at Counties in the new tops. Matt Bunn also worked really hard snapping away with his huge lense and pictures will be available to buy at a later date once he has edited them. Awards will be presented at our annual presentation night in January - details to follow soon. Well done everyone for another succesful year.

A great result on Saturday for our youngest swimmers - 2nd place in a hard fought competition between Sutton A and CABSC, with Leander A the clear winners from the 3rd event!. A first place for our 10/11 boys Freestyle relay SNATCHED 2nd OVERALL place from Sutton A for CABSC!

Special thanks to Lana and Jenna for stepping in at the last minute to complete the 11yr old Girls team. Thanks also to Rosie stepping up to be poolside coach due to Ian feeling very poorly and thanks to Lucy for team managing all by herself. I ended up recording for the evening as Sutton were short staffed!

Well done team, some who were doing their very first league gala for the club - Evie, Ava, Noor, Jessica M, Billy, Toby, Jenson, James B, Anastassia, Charlotte, Jenna L, Lana, Ryan, Elliot, Cameron and Noah. Thanks also to Sharon (Judge), Katrina and Sally (TKs).

It wasn’t just the Loughborough fair that lit up the town on Saturday night. With an outstanding team performance CABSC won the gala and, in the process, secured maximum bonus points leading into the final on December 10th. With old PB’s and Season Bests falling like the autumn leaves, the team took the lead after race 5 and remained there for the rest of the evening. There were some fine individual performances but the night was all about the team and each swimmer swimming for their team mates. Special mention to Will T, Cameron (both late replacements) and Karl (for racing down the M1 from Sheffield) and congratulations to Christie and Jamie on their Arena debuts. There is still a lot of hard work to put in between now and the final so we need to refocus and push on.

Well done to all who swam and many thanks to the officials, team managers, coaches and parents who make it all possible. Mark